Framesaw Day Class

£150.00

10am-6pm

An introduction to the core skills of joinery, whilst making your own beautiful frame saw. Suitable for absolute beginners.

Framesaws are an ingenious, versatile design using the tensile strength of the wood and a french twist to hold the cutting blade in tension. This allows the use of a thin blade that can be used to cut curves, as well as thicker blades for cutting straight lines. The blade can be easily adjusted and changed to suit the task at hand, making them a fantastic tool for spoon carving as well as classic joinery.

You will leave this class with a fully functional, traditional framesaw of your own making, using classic blind mortise and tenon joints. We also teach you how to prep your materials – making the wood true and square, and how to mark out and cut joints using traditional tools & techniques.

The process covers accurate & efficient use of handsaws, planes and chisels, as well as tool maintenance and sharpening.

Joinery is a core aspect of woodwork – to the extent that it may be the only aspect that the average person is are aware of. At the Green Wood Guild we know that this is not the case, but we hugely value the role joinery plays in our craft.

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6-Week Evening Class

Wednesday evenings from 7pm-9pm

Perfect for absolute beginners.

Master the basics of green wood furniture making, as you craft a simple, robust and beautiful 3-legged stool from fresh logs and seasoned hardwood.

On this course you can learn the key skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, including cleaving logs, cutting simple mortise & tenon joints, drilling holes with a brace & bit, making wedges and shaping a plank using planes and spoke shaves.

ALL COURSE BOOKINGS ARE NON REFUNDABLE

CLASS DATES CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED ONCE BOOKED

Sat & Sun | 10-6pm

Make a beautiful bench from recycled timber, using classic woodworking techniques. All exclusively with the use of hand tools, complete with drawbore joints and tapered mortise and tenons. Suitable for absolute beginners.

Over the weekend you will shape your legs, form solid joints and use a scorching technique to take a recycled scaffold plank to a gorgeous burnt finish. Leaving with a completed bench, without the need for nails or power tools.

Joinery is a core aspect of woodwork – to the extent that it may be the only aspect that the average person is aware of. At the Green Wood Guild we know that this is not the case, but we hugely value the role joinery plays in our craft. In this class you will learn to use shavehorses and drawknives, tapered tenon cutters, and reamers, as well as how to drill with accuracy, and how to use drawbore joints, one of our favourite joints here at the Green Wood Guild.

ALL COURSE BOOKINGS ARE NON REFUNDABLE

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Saturday & Sunday 10-6pm

Make a beautiful dovetail box from native hardwood, using only hand tools, complete with dovetail joints and a sliding lid. Perfect for absolute beginners.

On this course you will be introduced to the basics of joinery. Over the weekend you will learn to plane a hardwood log into smooth, straight planks, cut precise dovetail joints and finally assemble together a beautiful hand-crafted wooden box, without the need for glue, nails or modern power tools.

Joinery is a core aspect of woodwork – to the extent that it may be the only aspect that lay people are aware of. At the greenwood guild we know that this is not the case, but we still hugely value the role joinery plays in our craft. In this class you will learn to use handsaws, planes and chisels accurately and efficiently, as well as tool maintenance and sharpening.

ALL COURSE BOOKINGS ARE NON REFUNDABLE

CLASS DATES CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED ONCE BOOKED

A one day introduction to bowl carving

10am to 6pm

Learn to make a beautiful wooden bowl from native green hardwood using ancient hand tools. The adze, used to hollow out the bowl, has been in our culture since the stone age and is a wonderful introduction to the other traditional edge tools used to create your bowl. Over the course of the day you will use an axe, drawknife and pushknife to shape the outside of the bowl, and a gouge, scorp and hook knife to refine the inside.

In addition to giving you an introduction to a variety of hand tools, this course will give you a real insight into the three dimensional functionality of an object which has been used by humans for thousands of years.

Our bowl carving course runs from 10:00 to 18:00, during which time you will learn many different carving techniques, learn about how green wood differs from seasoned wood, and of course, at the end of the day you will take home a beautiful, functional wooden bowl.